Highlights

(left to right): Dr Mitzi Goldman, CEO Documentary Australia Foundation, Natasha Stott Despja AM, Ambassador for Women and Girls; Darrell Wade, CEO Peak Adventure Travel (Intrepid Travel, part of the Peak group founded by Darrell, a major partner of the film), Rebecca Barry, director and producer of I AM A GIRL, and Katie Humphries, one of the girls who appears in the film.

Ambassador for Women and Girls, Natasha Stott Despoja (centre) with beneficiaries of the microfinance programs run through Indonesia’s National Community Empowerment Program, with Australian support. Jakarta, 17 February 2014.

Ambassador for Women and Girls, Natasha Stott Despoja at the Civil Society Dialogue of the Eighth meeting of the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the rights of Women and Children, Jakarta, 19 February 2014.

Ambassador for Women and Girls, Natasha Stott Despoja with a beneficiary of a microfinance program run through the Australian-supported Indonesian National Community Empowerment Program, Jakarta, 17 February 2014.

(Left to right): Dr Mitzi Goldman, CEO Documentary Australia Foundation, Natasha Stott Despja AM, Ambassador for Women and Girls; Darrell Wade, CEO Peak Adventure Travel (Intrepid Travel, part of the Peak group founded by Darrell, a major partner of the film), Rebecca Barry, director and producer of I AM A GIRL, and Katie Humphries, one of the girls who appears in the film.

Ambassador for Women and Girls, Natasha Stott Despoja with Timor Leste Ambassador to the UN H.E. Ms Sofia Borges. 58th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, New York, 10-21 March 2014.

Ambassador for Women and Girls, Natasha Stott Despoja and Senator Michaelia Cash with Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and the Executive Director of UN Women. 58th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, New York, 10-21 March 2014.

Ambassador for Women and Girls, Natasha Stott Despoja and Senator Michaelia Cash with Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund. 58th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, New York, 10-21 March 2014.

Ambassador for Women and Girls, Natasha Stott Despoja and Senator Michaelia Cash with the Japanese Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Hirotaka Ishihara. 58th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, New York, 10-21 March 2014.

Ambassador for Women and Girls, Natasha Stott Despoja and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop with Pacific Journalists visiting Parliament House as part of an Australia Awards Fellowship. Canberra, 12 May 2014

Ambassador for Women and Girls, Natasha Stott Despoja, Australia's Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Elizabeth Broderick and Senator Michaelia Cash with medical students specialising in Women’s Health. 58th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, New York, 10-21 March 2014.

Ms Natasha Stott Despoja, Ambassador for Women and Girls, Ambassador Cathy Russell, US Ambassador at Large for Global Women’s Issues, Lieutenant General David Morrison, Chief of Army (Australia). Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, London, 10 – 13 June 2014.

Ambassador for Women and Girls, Natasha Stott Despoja keynote speech at ActionAid side event, ‘Justice for Women – A Strategy for Ending Sexual Violence in Conflict’ at the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, Wednesday 11 June, 2014.

Ambassador for Women and Girls, Natasha Stott Despoja with business and community leaders from across the Pacific at the second Australian-supported Pacific Women Leaders Dialogue. Building on the first Pacific Women Leaders Dialogue held in Tonga in June, participants discussed how the corporate sector can effectively support efforts to end violence against women, 25 November, 2014.

Ambassador for Women and Girls, Natasha Stott Despoja with employees of Medical Services Pacific (MSP). The Ambassador launched MSP’s One Stop Shop which, with the support of the Australian Government, will provide a free walk-in clinic for women, youth and children experiencing the trauma of sexual assault. This will include medical, legal and counselling services, Thursday 27 November, 2014.

Ambassador for Women and Girls, Natasha Stott Despoja launching Empower Pacific’s Gender Based Violence brochure on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and start of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, with CEO of Empower Pacific, Mr Patrick Morgan, at the Australian-supported Empower Pacific counselling centre in Lautoka, 25 November, 2014.

Australian Ambassador to Bhutan, Patrick Suckling; Her Majesty the Queen Mother Ashi Sangay Choden Wangchuck; and Australia’s Ambassador for Women and Girls, Natasha Stott Despoja, Thimphu, Bhutan, 11 October 2015. The Queen Mother of Bhutan, Her Majesty Sangay Choden Wangchuck is the founder and Patron of RENEW (Respect, Educate, Nurture, and Empower Women) an Australian supported NGO dedicated to the empowerment of vulnerable women and girls in Bhutan.

Australia’s Ambassador for Women and Girls, Natasha Stott Despoja, and Director, Office of the Ambassador for Women and Girls, Felicity Volk, visit a shelter for women and children run by NGO RENEW, Thimphu, Bhutan, 12 October 2015. (With RENEW staff).

Australia’s Ambassador for Women and Girls, Natasha Stott Despoja, delivers remarks during forum to mark International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women, co-hosted by Australia, the US and the Gender Studies Department at University of Malta. Malta, 25 November 2015.

Natasha Stott Despoja, Australian Ambassador for Women and Girls with a group of Australian volunteers during an official visit to South Africa with the Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, in Johannesburg, South Africa Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014. (Credit Kate Holt)

Natasha Stott Despoja, Australian Ambassador for Women and Girls with members of the NGO Enke on an official visit to South Africa, outside the old female prison on Constitution Hill in Johannesburg, South Africa Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014. (Credit Kate Holt)